Yorkshire Insurance Company v. Kirtley

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

J. E. Kirtley was the owner of a Nash roadster, which, together with the sum of $200' in cash he traded to the Fidelity Motor Company of Louisville for a secondhand Nash sedan. On February 3,1930, the Yorkshire Insurance Company, through their agents at Elizabeth-town, issued and delivered to Kirtley a policy insuring the Nash sedan against loss Iby fire or theft in the sum of $500. On March 15, 1930, the sedan was taken from the place where it had been left by Kirtley and burned. Payment having been refused, this action was brought by Kirtley to…